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    Trump Eyes Sweeping Changes to FEMA, Disaster Relief Efforts

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The Trump administration this week began signaling plans to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other U.S. government agencies’ responses to natural disasters. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a little-noticed executive order aimed at “achieving efficiency through state and local preparedness,” ordering national security adviser Mike Waltz and the heads of relevant…
    Ireland Owens
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    ‘Spitting Mad’: Far-Left Teachers Union Bosses Panic About Trump Executive Order

    Teachers unions are “spitting mad” about President Donald Trump cutting the Department of Education’s workforce and the possibility of an executive order further dismantling the 45-year-old agency. Trump will sign an executive order aimed at dismantling the agency Thursday, the White House confirmed to The Daily Signal. The order directs Education Secretary Linda McMahon to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Ron DeSantis Joins Former Rival Trump to Celebrate Demise of Education Department

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will join President Donald Trump in the White House as he signs an executive order Thursday afternoon making good on his campaign promise to close the Department of Education. The order intends to move power over education back to families and the states instead of Washington bureaucracies. The order directs Secretary…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    CBS Paints Trump as Worse Than Venezuelan Gangs

    In the moral battle between President Donald Trump and the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the media have chosen a side. The foreign gangsters are less morally questionable than the president. The Trump administration sent a plane stuffed with alleged Tren de Aragua members to El Salvador, which is apparently more of a crime…
    Tim Graham
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    President Trump’s Near-Impossible Task, Explained

    President Donald Trump has inherited an unstable world from his successor. His administration has the daunting task of simultaneously bringing two wars, one in Ukraine, the other in the Levant, to a close.  On the heels of a Tuesday phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Curt Mills, executive director of The American…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Here’s What Christians Urged Trump to Prioritize in Talks at White House

    A Baptist leader urged the Trump administration to use its platform to promote Biblical pro-family policies during a White House roundtable on Wednesday, The Daily Signal has learned. President Donald Trump’s White House Faith Office held a meeting with several pastors to discuss the priorities of American Christians and hear their recommendations. The head of…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Admin ‘Not Going to Tolerate’ Illinois School Forcing Girls to Change Clothes Alongside Trans Classmate

    As an Illinois mother seeks justice against the school district that forced her daughter to change in front a boy, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration won’t tolerate males invading private female-only spaces. “The president has made it incredibly clear that it is the policy of this administration that there are…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    BETRAYAL: Chief Justice John Roberts Takes the Side of Deep State Swamp Creatures Against Trump

    The deep state and its allies have launched a torrent of lawsuits, teaming up with activist judges to try to tie President Donald Trump’s hands on policy, and when the chief justice of the Supreme Court finally intervened, he did so on behalf of the lawless aggressors. Make no mistake: He sided with the revolt…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Admin Gives Hunter Biden IRS Whistleblowers Their Careers Back

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—President Donald Trump’s administration is hiring two IRS agents who alleged a cover-up of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes, tasking them with leading “reform” at the agency. The Treasury Department announced in a Tuesday press release that whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler will be senior advisers at the department. The agents came…
    Hudson Crozier
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    Trump Cuts Millions From Alma Mater of Trans Swimmer Thomas

    President Donald Trump has paused $175 million in federal funding to the University of Pennsylvania for violating his executive order banning biological men from women’s sports. Pennsylvania is the alma mater of William “Lia” Thomas, the biological male swimmer who competed against and tied with Riley Gaines in the NCAA Division I Women’s Championships three years…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Why Trump Should Ignore the Stock Market

    President Donald Trump’s economic priority shouldn’t be preventing a recession. Stock prices are always a bit of a roller coaster. Over the last month, it’s mostly been a downhill ride. In mid-February, the S&P 500 hit 6,144. It’s now dipped below 5,525. That’s around a 10% drop, which means the market is in correction territory….
    Victor Joecks
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    What Trump Memo on Taxpayer-Funded Union Time Means for Federal Employee Unions

    Part of the Trump administration’s efforts to improve efficiency, accountability, and transparency in the federal government include minimizing the amount of taxpayer-funded time that federal employees spend working for their unions instead of doing the jobs they were hired to perform. This “paid union leave” is otherwise known as “official time.” A Feb. 27 memo…
    Rachel Greszler
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    Less Pain at Pump: Trump Energy Policies Cited as Gas Prices Dip

    With gas prices plummeting across the United States, the Trump administration is taking credit for Americans’ savings at the pump. The White House’s “Rapid Response” team sent out a flurry of jubilant posts on X on Monday, celebrating the fourth consecutive week of falling gas prices. But can Trump take credit? Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas,…
    George Caldwell
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    How Many Tax Dollars Bankrolled Union Efforts to Block Trump?

    Your hard-earned tax dollars don't just fund the salaries of federal bureaucrats, they also support public-sector unions who negotiate sweetheart deals between the bureaucrats and management. Federal bureaucrats feverishly renegotiated those deals just before President Donald Trump entered office, attempting to block his reforms. Now, the Trump administration is demanding that each agency provide an…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Down to Earth: Trump, Musk Bringing Stranded Astronauts Home

    Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, two American astronauts who have been stranded on the International Space Station since June, are scheduled to touch down on the Gulf Coast near Tallahassee, Florida, at 5:57 p.m. Tuesday. Their successful rescue will be another example of a promise kept by President Donald Trump. The president has made returning…
    Jacob Adams
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    Trump Ready to Enforce the Death Penalty

    WASHINGTON—Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League graduate charged with fatally shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk in December, has pleaded not guilty in connection with the killing. Like all defendants, Mangione enters the courtroom with the presumption of innocence. But if a jury finds him guilty of the capital murder of which he…
    Debra Saunders
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    The Trump Counterrevolution’s Next Moves Abroad

    Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. President Donald Trump caused a stir, again, when he suggested that the recent independence vote in…
    Victor Davis Hanson
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    Ignoring All the President’s Women, Vanity Fair Ludicrously Accuses Trump of Nazi-Style Sexism 

    For a fresh look at how infantile, indolent, and insane the “Hate Trump” media have become, look no further than Olivia Campbell’s latest finger painting in Vanity Fair. This masterpiece of anti-MAGA madness is headlined “Trump’s New Administration Is Anti-Woman—a Playbook from Nazi-Era Germany.”  First things first: This headline writer should don a dunce cap and stand in…
    Deroy Murdock
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    Biden-Era App Was Like ‘Fast Pass at Disneyland’ for Illegal Aliens, Trump Press Secretary Says

    The Biden administration’s CBP One app facilitated the “mass illegal entry” of illegal immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday. “It was like a fast pass at Disneyland,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal at a White House press briefing. The Trump administration, however, repurposed the app to make it easier for illegal immigrants…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Trump Assails Clinton-Appointed Judge’s Rehiring Order as ‘Absolutely Ridiculous’

    President Donald Trump said it’s “ridiculous” that a federal judge ruled that the government must rehire fired government employees.   “I don’t think that’s going to be happening, but we’ll have to see,” he told The Daily Signal aboard Air Force One on Sunday. A judge appointed by President Bill Clinton ruled Thursday that the Trump…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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